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Message: [QUOTE="Teufel, post: 525565, member: 182"] [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative"]Belt and Road Initiative - Wikipedia[/URL] Notice how much of the belt and road initiative goes over land. Again, we could quickly gain sea control by choking off the South China Sea in a protracted global conflict with China. They will do everything in their power to keep any conflict below this level. This is by far the more dangerous adversary. China does has serious domestic issues that will always be their critical vulnerability. Sometimes, it helps to wag the dog and distract your impoverished population with an external threat, imaginary or otherwise. Anyway, China is playing the long game. We fight wars in 6 month increments. They are planning out the next century. Russia would love to break up NATO by invading one of the Baltic States and invalidating the power of an article 5 declaration. [/QUOTE]